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Online Ladislaus

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Re: Crux of the Pope Problem
« Reply #30 on: April 29, 2018, 07:30:41 PM »
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  • Here’s what I don’t understand...Ladislaus, I get you’re playing devils advocate in some of these debates as you’ve admitted before and you’re attacking bad logic, etc.  And that is necessary.  

    However, in your taking “R&R” to the logical extreme, without admitting for any middle ground, and your resulting condemnation of it, the only conclusion left for you is sedevacantism (or some variant).  Yet, when asked of your opinion on sedevacantism, you are open to either Siri-ism or sedeprivationism, etc and your conclusion is one of probability.

    Your argument that R&R is ABSOLUTELY wrong and sedevacantism is PROBABLY right makes no sense.  If R&R is schism, then sedeprivationism (or some variant) MUST be right.  Yet you lack conviction of the logical conclusion.  Makes no sense.

    I've already listed what I believe to be the Catholic variants.  One could even argue that Vatican II could in fact be interpreted in the light of Tradition.  Even if you're wrong, at least the Catholic principles I stated are not violated.  And one could argue that Paul VI was being blackmailed or coerced somehow.  But my chief point was that the various opinions about what happens to a heretical point aren't that important.  It could be that these men were heretics and lost office, or it could be that their elections were illegitimate due to Siri having been elected.  At the end of the day, I don't care which of these someone believes.  I even through out there the holograph Paul VI as a tongue-in-cheek option to make the point.


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    Re: Crux of the Pope Problem
    « Reply #31 on: April 29, 2018, 10:27:40 PM »
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  • You didn’t answer my question. And before you throw out a few childish insults, or impatiently lecture me on my stupidity, I forgive you.  



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    Re: Crux of the Pope Problem
    « Reply #32 on: May 02, 2018, 02:43:44 AM »
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  • The Patriarch of the Ukrainian Catholic Church had this to say about the Pope; 

    But the testimony of blessed Symeon Lukach has a special meaning in the context of searching unity among the Christians now. “They speak a lot about creating a single church now; but who should be at its foundation? – The blessed holy martyr gives the answer – It is not the president or the patriarch, but only the successor of apostle Peter – the Pope.” There was always a temptation to betray this loyalty to the Church of Volodymyr’s baptism. The whole underground church was suffering because of this.
    In the Primate’s opinion, the UGCC has a duty before other Ukrainian churches – to testify about the unity of our church with the Successor of apostle Peter. This is God’s Word to us today: raise, change the world around you, build the united church but remember your ancestral faith!”
    Afterwards, the hierarch blessed the museum of Symeon Lukach and of the catacomb church of the UGCC.


    http://news.ugcc.ua/en/photo/the_head_of_the_ugcc_in_starunia_the_servant_of_the_unity_of_the_church_of_christ_is_neither_the_president_nor_the_patriarch_but_the_successor_of_the_apostle_peter__the_pope_82658.html

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    Re: Crux of the Pope Problem
    « Reply #33 on: May 02, 2018, 06:14:10 AM »
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  • With all the debate raging on the different positions regarding the Papacy, the simple truth of the matter is that the Church has never officially defined what happens in the case of a heretical pope.  There dozens of possible variations of opinions, anywhere from he's immediately gone to he remains Pope and there's no way to get rid of him til he dies, all of which can be legitimately held by Catholics ... so long as it doesn't violate any known Catholic principles that have in fact been taught by the Church.  So, for instance, no legitimate principle can have it that the Pope as Pope can actually be deposed by the Church, since it's taught that there's no higher authority on earth than the Pope and that the Pope cannot be deposed.

    With that said, I could hardly care less what opinion you have on this issue.  You're perfectly entitled to it.

    BUT ... don't tell me that a legitimate Ecuмenical Council taught errors (or even heresies) to the Universal Church and don't tell me that a legitimate Pope promulgated a Rite of Mass that displeases God and is harmful to faith.  Don't tell me that it's OK for Catholics to go so far as to break communion with the legitimate hierarchy in order to reject this Magisterium and Universal Discipline.  Don't tell me that the Magisterium and Universal Discipline of the Church have gotten so corrupt that we're almost required to break communion with the Church in order to save our souls.  That is nothing other than the defection of the Catholic Church.

    Don't tell you that a legitimate Ecuмenical Council taught errors (or even heresies) to the Universal Church?
    Then what was it that taught errors and even heresies to the Universal Church? I like Fr. Hesse view, he likened it to a "Board Meeting" rather than calling it a council. Would saying the Council acting as a Board Meeting taught errors and heresies to the Universal Church be ok with you?

    Don't tell you that a legitimate Pope promulgated a Rite of Mass that displeases God and is harmful to faith?
    Then what was it the legitimate pope promulgated?

    Don't tell you that it's OK for Catholics to go so far as to break communion with the legitimate hierarchy in order to reject this Magisterium and Universal Discipline?
    The Church has always taught that all Catholics who reject the magisterium are apostates and will end up in hell if they die in that state. She also teaches to avoid all heretics - including our own shepherds if that be the case - lest we fall into heresy ourselves and end up in hell. What more can the Church say?

    Don't tell you that the Magisterium and Universal Discipline of the Church have gotten so corrupt that we're almost required to break communion with the Church in order to save our souls? And that is nothing other than the defection of the Catholic Church?
    Being that the magisterium is in fact, "all that has been handed down as divinely revealed by the ordinary teaching authority of the entire Church spread over the whole world, and which, for this reason, Catholic theologians, with a universal and constant consent, regard as being of the faith", the magisterium cannot corrupt, not ever, not at all, and certainly, thankfully, the Catholic Church cannot defect even if most of her hierarchy and members do, so no need to be concerned with that.

    What exactly is this Universal Discipline you keep talking about?  



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    Now, if you want to say that 1) V2 can be reconciled with Tradition through some hermeutic of continuity and the New Mass when offered as intended in Latin isn't particularly bad or displeaseing to God, or that 2) Montini was replaced by an imposter who fraudulently promulgated these things, or that 3) Montini was being blackmailed due to his prior ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ activities, or that 4) someone else was signing these docuмents, or that 5) Montini was just a holographic projection and the Illuminati controlled everything, or that 6) Cardinal Siri was elected pope and impeded the legitimate election of most of the V2 popes, or that 7) Paul VI had no legitimate authority due to heresy, or at least doubt/suspicion, or had some authority but not teaching authority, or was just materially pope.  I would rather buy the holographic Montini theory than smear the Holy Catholic Church by saying that Vatican II and the Novus Ordo Mass are products of the Church.
    So you are willing to buy off on wild, impossible, conspiracy theories but won't stand for discussing reality?  

    I wonder how do sedes get to that point? Sedes necessarily must ignore, even condemn real 'factual events based evidence', and go a very long way out of the way to conclude reality is not possible, while at the same time conclude that an answer lies somewhere within unprovable and unproven theories.

    With that in mind, using unknowns only means that it will always be impossible to ever know if the answers they come up with are the right ones. Quite the vicious circle to be entangled in.
    "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." - Acts 5:29

    The Highest Principle in the Church: "We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man" - Fr. Hesse

    Online Ladislaus

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    Re: Crux of the Pope Problem
    « Reply #34 on: May 02, 2018, 08:05:32 AM »
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  • I like Fr. Hesse view, he likened it to a "Board Meeting" rather than calling it a council.

    :laugh1:

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    Online Ladislaus

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    Re: Crux of the Pope Problem
    « Reply #35 on: May 02, 2018, 08:06:54 AM »
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  • Don't tell you that a legitimate Pope promulgated a Rite of Mass that displeases God and is harmful to faith?
    Then what was it the legitimate pope promulgated?

    Nothing.  That's the point, that he wasn't a legitimate Pope ... or else was coerced, blackmailed, etc.

    +Lefebvre talked about various scenarios (imposter, drugging, etc.) ... but he didn't raise the issue of possible blackmail or coercion.  Montini was well known for sinful behavior contrary to nature.

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    Re: Crux of the Pope Problem
    « Reply #36 on: May 02, 2018, 08:10:17 AM »
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  • Watch this video again.  +Lefebvre says EXACTLY what I'm arguing in this thread.  It's not possible for the Pope, who is guided by the Holy Spirit, to have done these things.  So he entertains various possible explanations for how this could have happened ... from drugged pope to imposter pope (and these two he ends up dismissing) and finally to sedevacantism ... which he does NOT dismiss but holds out as a very real possibility.  But the PRINCIPLE I state in this thread Achbishop Lefebvre also holds to be plain Catholic truth.


    Online Ladislaus

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    Re: Crux of the Pope Problem
    « Reply #37 on: May 02, 2018, 08:11:56 AM »
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  • What exactly is this Universal Discipline you keep talking about?  

    The Mass and Code of Canon Law, dummy, what else?  Didn't think I needed to spell it out.


    Online Ladislaus

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    Re: Crux of the Pope Problem
    « Reply #38 on: May 02, 2018, 08:13:18 AM »
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  • Don't tell you that it's OK for Catholics to go so far as to break communion with the legitimate hierarchy in order to reject this Magisterium and Universal Discipline?
    The Church has always taught that all Catholics who reject the magisterium are apostates and will end up in hell if they die in that state. She also teaches to avoid all heretics - including our own shepherds if that be the case - lest we fall into heresy ourselves and end up in hell. What more can the Church say?

    If these men are apostate and heretics, to be avoided, then they are OUTSIDE THE CHURCH.  See St. Robert Bellarmine's refutation of Wathenism/Stubbornism on this point.  See also Father Chazal's point about heretics to be avoided.

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    Re: Crux of the Pope Problem
    « Reply #39 on: May 02, 2018, 09:02:21 AM »
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  • Nothing.  That's the point, that he wasn't a legitimate Pope ... or else was coerced, blackmailed, etc.

    +Lefebvre talked about various scenarios (imposter, drugging, etc.) ... but he didn't raise the issue of possible blackmail or coercion.  Montini was well known for sinful behavior contrary to nature.
    Yes, he was a legitimate pope and all the facts pertaining to that reality bears this out. So the question remains, "Then what was it the legitimate pope promulgated?"

    You forget about +Lefebvre and stick to trying to find a reliable sede to reference, the good archbishop lived and died opposed to  sedeism and their theories.
    "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." - Acts 5:29

    The Highest Principle in the Church: "We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man" - Fr. Hesse

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    Re: Crux of the Pope Problem
    « Reply #40 on: May 02, 2018, 09:23:41 AM »
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  • The Mass and Code of Canon Law, dummy, what else?  Didn't think I needed to spell it out.
    Had you spelled it out earlier, you could have avoided repeating such a blunder.

    The Mass is not universal nor a discipline at all, it's the liturgy dummy. The Mass is not Universal since it is only of the Latin Rite, the other Rites have their own Mass. Did you not say you sometimes attend an Eastern Rite and do they celebrate the same TLM as the Latin Rite there?

    Canon Law is just that, Laws, not a discipline either, but if you want to call it a discipline then you need to clarify what you mean, the fact that canon laws change and all of it's laws do not apply to all of the people, dictates that it is not Universal either, using your terminology and reasoning, you would say that the 10 Commandments are a Universal Discipline.

    "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." - Acts 5:29

    The Highest Principle in the Church: "We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man" - Fr. Hesse


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    Re: Crux of the Pope Problem
    « Reply #41 on: May 02, 2018, 09:28:27 AM »
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  • If these men are apostate and heretics, to be avoided, then they are OUTSIDE THE CHURCH.  See St. Robert Bellarmine's refutation of Wathenism/Stubbornism on this point.  See also Father Chazal's point about heretics to be avoided.
    They are heretics and we are to avoid them. If you declare them to be out of the Church, then all I can say is: "So let it be written, so let it be done!" As for me, I will not declare them to be out of the Church but I will say that they teach heresies and I will have absolutely nothing to do with any of them. See Gal 1:8

    See also Titus 3:10
    "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." - Acts 5:29

    The Highest Principle in the Church: "We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man" - Fr. Hesse

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    Re: Crux of the Pope Problem
    « Reply #42 on: May 02, 2018, 09:36:21 AM »
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  • I'd like to see where the Church teaches this in bold. We are to avoid heretics but they cannot be our shepherds because it's dogmatic that heretics are not Catholics and implied that our Shepherds must be Catholic. It's not even really implied.
    This is your problem. You obstinately hold the heretical notion that the ravenous wolves can be our shepherds simultaneously.
    In addition to the Scripture I previously referenced, for the bolded part you can read Jeremias 23:1-4, but that whole chapter has more if you were to read it.

    Woe to the pastors, that destroy and tear the sheep of my pasture, saith the Lord.
    Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to the pastors that feed my people: You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold I will visit upon you for the evil of your doings, saith the Lord.
    And I will gather together the remnant of my flock, out of all the lands into which I have cast them out: and I will make them return to their own fields, and they shall increase and be multiplied.
    And I will set up pastors over them, and they shall feed them: they shall fear no more, and they shall not be dismayed: and none shall be wanting of their number, saith the Lord.
    "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." - Acts 5:29

    The Highest Principle in the Church: "We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man" - Fr. Hesse

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    Re: Crux of the Pope Problem
    « Reply #43 on: May 02, 2018, 09:48:36 AM »
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  • The Mass is not universal nor a discipline at all, it's the liturgy dummy. The Mass is not Universal since it is only of the Latin Rite, the other Rites have their own Mass.

    :facepalm:

    Mass is classified as part of Discipline ... as distinct from Doctrine proper.  And something given just to the Latin Rite is absolutely considered Universal.  You may wish to study some theology before posting stupidities and embarrassing yourself.

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    Re: Crux of the Pope Problem
    « Reply #44 on: May 02, 2018, 10:40:47 AM »
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  • :facepalm:

    Mass is classified as part of Discipline ... as distinct from Doctrine proper.  And something given just to the Latin Rite is absolutely considered Universal.  You may wish to study some theology before posting stupidities and embarrassing yourself.
    As I said, it is not a Universal Discipline. You will need to purge your mind and vocabulary of the NO theology you've been brainwashed with or you will never have a Catholic understanding of what you are attempting to talk about.
    "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." - Acts 5:29

    The Highest Principle in the Church: "We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man" - Fr. Hesse